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Last Updated: Sep 17th, 2007 - 13:49:14 |
The Old Doctor
"The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Gang Aft Aglay"
I'd returned from Portage Des Sioux a little earlier than I planned in order to make an appointment with my cardiologist. I'd been feeling better the last few months and expected a routine checkup and another appointment in six months. In fact, I was planning an early trip up the Illinois to Chicago and back.
Boy did those plans ever "gang aft aglay!
Feb 13, 2007, 22:14
The Old Doctor
Building it from scratch ...
 After a hiatus of close to a year and a half, The Patriot is back, with rejuvenated editor, renewed purpose and newer and more user friendly reading premises. If you enjoy what you read on our pages, please take advantage of the opportunity to instantly share it with your friends by simply clicking on the "email this article" button. If you'd like to copy and paste a printer friendly version, please take advantage of that new feature as well.
Now, this is where I'm also supposed to add, "and we're bigger, faster and better than ever," but I won't do that.
Here's why.
May 14, 2006, 18:41
The Old Doctor
"Need For Speed"
What I'm ticked about this time is a computer game, specifically, "Need for Speed, Most Wanted," and even more specifically, the online version of the game, which has transformed itself from a virtual world where even old men could race on the streets with a reasonable assurance of a clean race into a veritable den of thugs intent not on racing but rather on ruining the experience for those who believe in fair play and clean racing. What's the world coming to when the last athletic refuge of old men is corrupted by nerds intent on cheating?
Aug 9, 2007, 13:00
The Old Sarge
The Alpha Male Army
This article was first published on these pages in August, 1997 and republished the next month in UPI's now defunct Gridlock and Load. The occasion was another military sex scandal. I'm republishing it today because I referenced it on the Faded Glory forum yesterday, noting that in those ante-impeachment days I tended to go for the humor rather than the jugular.
I hope that readers find it as funny today as I thought it was when it was written.
If you enjoy a rousing discussion of politics (and everything else under the sun), please feel free to join me at Faded Glory.
Feb 13, 2007, 23:54
The Old Doctor
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Archives
Reexamining the Iranian bomb threat ... we've been there before
Time does indeed fly. This article was first published in July, 1998, in the wake of successful nuclear explosions by both India and Pakistan. Despite the gravity of the situation, the political recriminations on both sides were mere spasms in the midst of the "all Monica Lewinsky all the time" news coverage of the period. Given the history that's followed, with Pakistan our closest ally in the area and both countries more or less divorced from their perpetual sword rattling over Kashmir, it is perhaps instructive in the debate over the Iranian bomb.
Perhaps the theory of Mutual Assured Destruction can still work, on a local scale at least. Though the Pakis assuredly still don't love their Indian brothers, and vice versa, in recent years neither side has shown any notion of widespread, deliberate provocation.
And perhaps a nuclear armed Iran, in M.A.D. partnership with a nuclear armed Israel, might go a long way toward easing THAT almost sixty years of perpetual conflict.
Aug 31, 2006, 20:42
The Old Babe
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The Logbook of Bob's Babe
The Babe gets a new skirt ...
A right way and a wrong way to do everything ...
 When you go to the big city, even close to the big city, nerve wracking traffic is a matter of life. This was my fourth trip to the St. Louis area and like every one of the others, it became a pain in the butt as soon as we drew within the environs of the metro area. I hate driving in intense traffic, especially when it seems everyone is running seventy-five with a cell phone to their ear. Finally, returning home, we found a better way.
Jun 16, 2006, 21:54
The Old Babe
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The Logbook of Bob's Babe
Coming Soon!
Expect first reports in ten days to two weeks.
Jun 12, 2006, 15:30
The Old Babe
Meet The Old Babe
 Bob's Babe is the 1970 Kingscraft 44 river houseboat I bought last September. She's been under renovation all winter and is just about ready to go back in the water.
If you're old enough to remember the early 70s, you might remember a "double truck" magazine ad from the period that featured a King 44 high on plane, throwing a huge wake and pulling three waterskiers.
I first saw that ad in the barber's chair at the post PX. As I was looking at it, the barber leaned over my shoulder and said, "she's a big old gal, ain't she?" I agreed, and said aloud that "one of these days I'm gonna' get one of those things, just for the novelty of skiing behind a houseboat."
Jun 9, 2006, 23:18
The Old Klockster
Neither felons now, nor fellow Americans yet ...
 Although it's a claim denied by the left-leaningest among my readers, I have a heart - and it goes out to those who sneak across our borders in search of a better life.
Technically, they are criminals - every one of them - but so is the starving person who steals bread. Let's begin, therefore, by agreeing that there are degrees of criminality, measured by the circumstances surrounding the crime...
May 16, 2006, 23:13
The Old Doctor
Should President Bush Be Impeached?
Today's Burning Question
Should President Bush be impeached?
That is, perhaps, the wrong question. The right question would be, "will he be impeached?" That question turns upon the midterm elections in November. Should the democrats do as well as they hope, there should be little doubt that it will happen. Though democrats talk in terms of investigations, they think in terms of impeachment. Polls show that they would find wide support among the public, including more than a little from the closet side of the GOP, congressmen and senators who have been bitten in the butt by constituents angry that the war didn't turn out the way they'd been promised.
May 16, 2006, 22:31
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